Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
Peter Sarsgaard is a very talented actor. I think it is great that he is taking the initiative to learn to play mandolin. I am sure he can find somebody in New York to help him learn to play mandolin! On Sep 17, 2010, at 12:32 PM, Terry Bullin wrote: Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in NEW YORK, he will have no trouble playing rawhideyea right. What I want to know is who's going to teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! --- On Fri, 9/17/10, johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com wrote: From: johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe To: m...@yahoogroups.com, deepgr...@yahoogroups.com, taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:32 AM Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie that's in the works... John http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of 1938. He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved Mauldin to Nashville and made her his road girlfriend, Richard D. Smith wrote in Can't You Hear Me Callin', his 2000 biography of the father of bluegrass music. Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including Blue Moon of Kentucky, Smith wrote. Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. I've read the script, said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. It's a love story about Bill and Bessie Lee. And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill, Mercer, a keeper of the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy. Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his infidelities. But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. Their child, which she gave up for adoption, according to the book, inspired the song, My Little Georgia Rose. And Mauldin, a bass player with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys off and on for two decades, played on 99 of Monroe's recordings. Reminded that the soundtrack for Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 movie about gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, contained a lot of bluegrass music and brought a lot of new fans to the genre, Mercer said, This time I'm afraid Bill is going to be Clyde. Funny stories out there Still, he says, there are some awful funny stories about Bill and Bessie Lee out there, including one about Mauldin wrestling another of Monroe's girlfriends to the ground in North Carolina. Maggie Gyllenhaal, 32, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in last year's Crazy Heart, recently told ScreenCrave.com that she will portray Mauldin in the movie. Her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Woodward said: He's very enthusiastic about the movie. He said his father was a big bluegrass fan. The ScreenCrave story said Joseph Henry T-Bone Burnett, who produced the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which sold 8 million copies, and collaborated on Crazy Heart will do the music for Blue Moon. Callie Khouri, who grew up in Paducah and wrote Thelma Louise, wrote the script. She and T-Bone are married, Woodward said. Jolly, whose credits include being sound supervisor on American Beauty and The Whole Ten Yards as well as on episodes of Lost, The Shield and Alias, is producing. Finn Taylor (The Darwin Awards, Cherish, Dream With The Fishes) will direct. Taylor has visited Owensboro four times and Jolly, three times so far, Woodward said. One day when they were here, we walked down to the Famous Bistro for lunch, he said. They said they liked some of the buildings downtown and might want to film some here. I just listened. Yes, hoping to shoot scenes at Rosine and Owensboro, Jolly said in an e-mail Tuesday. Too early for specifics though. Woodward says the
Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
Who's giving him lessons? Tbug On Sep 19, 9:33 am, Mike Hoffmann mikehoffma...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Sarsgaard is a very talented actor. I think it is great that he is taking the initiative to learn to play mandolin. I am sure he can find somebody in New York to help him learn to play mandolin! On Sep 17, 2010, at 12:32 PM, Terry Bullin wrote: Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in NEW YORK, he will have no trouble playing rawhideyea right. What I want to know is who's going to teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! --- On Fri, 9/17/10, johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com wrote: From: johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe To: m...@yahoogroups.com, deepgr...@yahoogroups.com, taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:32 AM Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie that's in the works... John http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of 1938. He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved Mauldin to Nashville and made her his road girlfriend, Richard D. Smith wrote in Can't You Hear Me Callin', his 2000 biography of the father of bluegrass music. Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including Blue Moon of Kentucky, Smith wrote. Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. I've read the script, said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. It's a love story about Bill and Bessie Lee. And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill, Mercer, a keeper of the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy. Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his infidelities. But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. Their child, which she gave up for adoption, according to the book, inspired the song, My Little Georgia Rose. And Mauldin, a bass player with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys off and on for two decades, played on 99 of Monroe's recordings. Reminded that the soundtrack for Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 movie about gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, contained a lot of bluegrass music and brought a lot of new fans to the genre, Mercer said, This time I'm afraid Bill is going to be Clyde. Funny stories out there Still, he says, there are some awful funny stories about Bill and Bessie Lee out there, including one about Mauldin wrestling another of Monroe's girlfriends to the ground in North Carolina. Maggie Gyllenhaal, 32, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in last year's Crazy Heart, recently told ScreenCrave.com that she will portray Mauldin in the movie. Her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Woodward said: He's very enthusiastic about the movie. He said his father was a big bluegrass fan. The ScreenCrave story said Joseph Henry T-Bone Burnett, who produced the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which sold 8 million copies, and collaborated on Crazy Heart will do the music for Blue Moon. Callie Khouri, who grew up in Paducah and wrote Thelma Louise, wrote the script. She and T-Bone are married, Woodward said. Jolly, whose credits include being sound supervisor on American Beauty and The Whole Ten Yards as well as on episodes of Lost, The Shield and Alias, is producing. Finn Taylor (The Darwin Awards, Cherish, Dream With The Fishes) will direct. Taylor has visited Owensboro four times and Jolly, three times so far, Woodward said. One day when they were here, we walked down to the Famous Bistro for lunch, he
Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
I think it'd be smart move on Tone's part to have the project include a soundtrack of Monroe tunes recorded by leading Monroe authorities. I'd buy a copy. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com Sender: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:57:11 To: Taterbugmandotaterbugmando@googlegroups.com Reply-To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe Who's giving him lessons? Tbug On Sep 19, 9:33 am, Mike Hoffmann mikehoffma...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Sarsgaard is a very talented actor. I think it is great that he is taking the initiative to learn to play mandolin. I am sure he can find somebody in New York to help him learn to play mandolin! On Sep 17, 2010, at 12:32 PM, Terry Bullin wrote: Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in NEW YORK, he will have no trouble playing rawhideyea right. What I want to know is who's going to teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! --- On Fri, 9/17/10, johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com wrote: From: johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe To: m...@yahoogroups.com, deepgr...@yahoogroups.com, taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:32 AM Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie that's in the works... John http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of 1938. He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved Mauldin to Nashville and made her his road girlfriend, Richard D. Smith wrote in Can't You Hear Me Callin', his 2000 biography of the father of bluegrass music. Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including Blue Moon of Kentucky, Smith wrote. Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. I've read the script, said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. It's a love story about Bill and Bessie Lee. And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill, Mercer, a keeper of the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy. Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his infidelities. But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. Their child, which she gave up for adoption, according to the book, inspired the song, My Little Georgia Rose. And Mauldin, a bass player with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys off and on for two decades, played on 99 of Monroe's recordings. Reminded that the soundtrack for Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 movie about gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, contained a lot of bluegrass music and brought a lot of new fans to the genre, Mercer said, This time I'm afraid Bill is going to be Clyde. Funny stories out there Still, he says, there are some awful funny stories about Bill and Bessie Lee out there, including one about Mauldin wrestling another of Monroe's girlfriends to the ground in North Carolina. Maggie Gyllenhaal, 32, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in last year's Crazy Heart, recently told ScreenCrave.com that she will portray Mauldin in the movie. Her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Woodward said: He's very enthusiastic about the movie. He said his father was a big bluegrass fan. The ScreenCrave story said Joseph Henry T-Bone Burnett, who produced the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which sold 8 million copies, and collaborated on Crazy Heart will do the music for Blue Moon. Callie Khouri, who grew up in Paducah and wrote Thelma Louise, wrote
